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Monday, May 31, 2010

Beachy inspiration

My family takes a big beach vacation for one week every August. As I was thinking about what I wanted my next project to be, I thought maybe I should make a big bright quilt to take to the beach! Sun, sand, surf and a big bright colored quilt to lay on...sounds perfect. So then I was stuck with the big task of deciding what design to make. I've really liked using the half square triangles, and liked the rail fence pattern, but I wanted to try something I haven't done before. I've been wanting to try a log cabin pattern, and in scouring Flickr and my favorite quilting blogs, I found this:
:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3226/2884296204_b35a0d01da.jpg
It's a quilt from Red Pepper Quilts. I love this design, and am using this layout as my inspiration.

My blocks will be 10 inches x 10 inches and I'm planning on the finished quilt to be 80 inches x 80 inches (eek! by far the largest quilt I've made). I'm trying to use most fabric from my "stash" (its amazing how much fabric I've accumulated after quilting for less than 6 months!) I have my strips cut for the green blocks and am going to piece them in the next few days...stay tuned!

2 comments:

Wow, that is a BIG beach quilt ! I wouldn't want to get it dirty, it's going to be so luscious. At first, I thought it was all going to be in the ocean blues, but this is going to mix it up a bit.........keep us coming back to see, huh?

haha yes! keeping things interesting! I just have this vision of bright bright colors and contrasting black and white...there is a good possibility i'll be too scared to get it dirty at the beach, but ill have a BIG quilt that (hopefully) I'll love!

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